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Default Rules: Loopholes

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What sort of loopholes are assumed to be disallowed in any challenge on this site?

One loophole per answer, please. Vote up answers if you want them disallowed, and down otherwise.

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Sneakily using macros

In a code golf challenge, you are tasked to use as small bytes as possible. However, it's considered unacceptable in a language like C to use macros to hide code or shorten it without including the macro itself.

An example:

C (clang), 5 bytes

hello

Try it online!

In other words, it's a messy way to shorten code, and therefore, a challenge loophole.

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This is already banned, I think, since any macros, functions, or variables you use have to be include... (2 comments)
This is already banned, I think, since any macros, functions, or variables you use have to be include...
user‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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This is already banned, I think, since any macros, functions, or variables you use have to be included in the byte count if they're not available otherwise.

General Sebast1an‭ wrote over 3 years ago
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user‭ I re-included it if someone wants to look around. Maybe here, maybe there, at least somewhere, but a spot here might help.